Category Archives: Guest Post

Aid for Power in New Cold War

Once a way for powerful nations to influence developing countries, development aid has gained renewed significance in the new Cold War. Unlike before, the rivalry now is not between different systems.

Dollar Diplomacy: Michael Hudson and Steve Keen on Real Progressives

A wide-ranging and free-wheeling discussion of money, oligarchy, trade, China, the future of the dollar….with an eye to MMT.

2:00PM Water Cooler 7/14/2022

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Links 7/14/2022

Climate Protestors Stop Stage 10 of the Tour de France

Climate protests stopped Stage 10 of the Tour de France briefly on Tuesday. The race continued, but a worldwide audience heard their message.

Biden Expands Oil Exploration in Bid to Slow Climate Change

Biden’s decided to open the door to further offshore oil exploration: we must kill the planet in order to save it.

What Happens When Big Brother Meets Big Tech

Author and law professor Maurice Stucke warns that as fundamental privacy rights vanish, your personal data can and will be used against you.

2:00PM Water Cooler 7/13/2022

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The Incredibly Cool James Webb Space Telescope

An exquisitely sensitive infrared astronomical observatory….

Links 7/13/2022

Climate Change Risks to Sovereign Debt: How Integrated Assessment Models Inform Our Understanding

Evidence suggests that sovereign debt markets are taking climate effects into account in pricing, creating the potential for a climate-debt doom loop

Book Review: The Limits of Drug-Based Psychiatry

The triumph of biological psychiatry has everything to do with the close ties between Big Pharma and academic psychiatry and little to do with compelling scientific evidence.

2:00PM Water Cooler 7/12/2022

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Links 7/12/2022

Wage Stagnation and Productivity: Challenging the Conventional Analysis

Stagnating real wages may have contributed to the slowdown of US productivity.